فاعلية قناة الائتمان المصرفي في السياسة النقدية في العراق للمدّة 2004 – 2014

الملخص

    The monetary Authorities can achieve its their final goals and targets , through two channels . the first is the interest rate channel , which is known also as the conventional  channel . the second one is the credit channel . This research  is devoted to deal with the latter .

This study is  to shed light upon the nexus between the monetary policy and the banking sector in Iraq for the period 2004-2014 . It  importance stems from addressing the credit channel, in details, and from stating the impact of the banking sector’s characteristics  on the efficiency of  credit channel .

The Hypothesis of the research  is as follows : " The characteristics  of Iraqi banking sector during the period 2004-2014 , set the stage for the credit channel to work efficiently .

The study lies into three chapters . the first one is devoted to give a theoretical framework of  the credit channel and the factors that the researcher considers as determinants  of the credit channel efficiency .

The second  chapter displays the characteristics of the Iraqi banking  sector  for  the period 2004-2014 , while the third one represents an attempt to measure the efficiency of  credit channel in Iraq for the period   mentioned above , by using the weights or the range Approach.